Music and Gender
When I heard the topic of music and gender a few different stories came to mind some personal, others I've heard and some I just found interesting. From my personal experiences, I grew up going to Waldorf schools. In a Waldorf school it's required for you to take choir as well as play an instrument. I played the violin in the orchestra and something that I noticed was that most of the guys would play the bigger instruments such as base and cello, whereas the girls primarily played the smaller instruments such as violin and viola. I noticed in viewing other orchestras that these gender roles were very common, as demonstrated in the video I attached below. My mother has always been very into music, and she would tell me stories about her in her younger years and how she was really into rock n roll. I remember her telling me that she found it odd that not a lot of girls listened to rock, and some guys would even tease her for it claiming rock n rolls was for boys and girls shou...